By Michael Roberts Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. She is a columnist for the left-wing
Category: Economics Archive
By Michael Roberts Once again the US Federal Reserve is in a quandary. Does it cut its policy interest rate soon in order to relieve
By Michael Roberts The great and the good have just finished attending a special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The theme of the
By Michael Roberts Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper on Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused
By Michael Roberts A general election in India starts today. 970m Indians, more than 10% of the world’s population, will head to the polls in
By Michael Roberts The semi-annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank starts this week. The agencies and their invited guests will discuss the state
By Michael Roberts The recent nonsense issued by the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on China’s ‘overcapacity’ and ‘unfair subsidies’ to its industries is particularly
By Michael Roberts In Q1 2024, global stock markets recorded their best first-quarter performance in five years, buoyed by hopes of a soft economic landing
By Michael Roberts Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He ran the highly successful FTX bitcoin hedge fund that supposedly
By Michael Roberts The book, The State of Capitalism, is an ambitious work. Written by the NAMe Collective with the lead from Professor Costas Lapavitsas
